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Strawberry Preserve

A sweet preserve made by boiling strawberries with sugar and water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Strawberry Preserve

Ingredients

Directions

Make the syrup

  1. In a saucepan, combine 1 pound of white sugar and 1 pint of water to make a syrup.

  2. Boil the syrup thoroughly.

Cook and jar the preserve

  1. Add 1 pound of strawberries to the syrup.

  2. Boil three times, removing any scum that forms.

  3. Pour the preserve into very small glass jars.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

White sugar
Sweetens the preserve and, when boiled down, helps it thicken and keep.
Strawberries
Provide the fruit flavor and most of the body of the preserve.

The step that matters

Boiling the syrup with the strawberries. Boiling evaporates water and concentrates the sugar and the fruit's natural pectin, which is what lets the preserve thicken and set as it cools. Too little boiling leaves it runny, and skimming off scum keeps the preserve clear and pure in flavor.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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